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Entertainment Arts Research (Entertainment Arts Research) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Entertainment Arts Research Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Entertainment Arts Research's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in . 20 was $0.00 Mil. Entertainment Arts Research does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Entertainment Arts Research Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Beverages - Brewers subindustry, Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Beverages - Alcoholic Industry

For the Beverages - Alcoholic industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Entertainment Arts Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Entertainment Arts Research Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.


Entertainment Arts Research  (OTCPK:EARI) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Entertainment Arts Research (Entertainment Arts Research) Business Description

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Address
19109 West Catawba Avenue, Suite 200, Cornelius, NC, USA, 28031
Entertainment Arts Research Inc is a United States based the packaged consumer goods in the beverage market segment. The company focuses on growth opportunities of early stage brands in the beverage industry, that can scale rapidly by taking advantage of the group's specialty beverage marketing operations.